hey Snadger and Smokers

Did you ever get your smoking fridge working?

If you like alternative preservation methods you might warm to an idea I found t’other day in my earlier search for solutions to shady places (didn’t store the address but will retrace if necessary) which was to bury a surplus fridge or freezer in a shady part of the garden with the door uppermost (i.e.level with surface) and use it like an old-fashioned clamp for storing root veg - the idea being that the winter ground temp stays cold and pretty constant a few feet down. Don't see why it has to be a fridge, any metal box would do but a fridge has the right associations.... The author said it worked best if you buried it 6 feet down but that sounded a bit of a hostage to fortune to me (and neighbours might think you have a terrible secret….). I like the simplicity of the idea and it’s less severe than freezing - but am not sure it would work. You could probably keep moisture, insects, mice etc at bay but wouldn’t the air go stagnant? A fridge full of slightly damp sand perhaps? But then rescuing a carrot would become a major undertaking in more than one sense . And are there any environmental risks to burying fridges? Duh! Off to Tescos again…

I was less impressed with this guy's alternative use for cars… (I think he was mapping existence post holocaust but I ignored that bit) - basically take the seats out, fill up the interior with soil to the level of the windows and he claims you’ve got a mobile coldframe/greenhouse. Not sure how you tend the plants, through the sunroof presumably . A big saving on petrol costs is evidently another advantage of that one.

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